Chance The Rapper Emphasizes Paying Attention To Real Life In Emmys Intro Song Rap Verse

Chance The Rapper Emphasizes Paying Attention To Real Life In Emmys Intro Song Rap Verse

Genre : More Music

Type: News

Author : Super Admin

Date : Mon, 18 Sep 2017

Stephen Colbert hosted last night's 2017 Emmy Awards, opening with a musical performance featuring the refrain, "Everything is better on TV." Amidst Colbert's singing and dancing and the various clips, parodies, and comedic references to current (mostly depressing) events, Chance The Rapper popped in for a quick verse reminding the audience of the real world problems outside of their comfortable living rooms.

Chance rapped that he enjoys TV shows like Brooklyn Nine-Nine and Bob's Burgers, but summed up most TV as "a pleasant distraction." He instead encouraged awareness in both the industry and viewers alike, with lines like "Where's the cop show where one gets convicted?" and "Please don't ignore/ the decline of the independent family run store." Another line pressed the entertainment industry to include more diversity. He ended with a call to social action, saying, "I get it, them finales, they got you focused/But just record the show and show up at the protest."

Other guest appearances during the musical number included the stars of current TV shows, Anthony Anderson of Black-ish, Millie Bobby Brown of Stranger Things, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus of Veep.

Chance was nominated at this year's Emmys in the category Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics for his appearance on Saturday Night Live, where he sang a rendition of "Last Christmas". He lost out to Common, Robert Glasper, and Karriem Riggins whose song "Letter to the Free" featured in the controversial prison documentary 13th. Colbert himself was nominated in multiple categories for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

Donald Glover, fresh off multiple Emmy wins for his series Atlanta, brought up Chance's rise to prominence during a backstage interview, saying ""I feel like if I don't make a Chance the Rapper mixtape, like a double mixtape, a bunch of 14-year-olds will kick my a**."